Slax

Slax is a minimalist desktop live CD based on Debian's "stable" branch. It boots into a simple desktop using the Fluxbox window manager which offers a small collection of applications, including the Chromium web browser, a text editor and a calculator. Prior to version 9.x, Slax was a Slackware-based live CD featuring the KDE desktop and a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use together with useful recovery tools for system administrators.

To compare the software in this project to the software available in other distributions, please see our Compare Packages page.

Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the "nautilus" and "gnome-shell" packages. The Apache web server is listed as "httpd" and the Linux kernel is listed as "linux". The KDE desktop is represented by the "plasma-desktop" package and the Xfce desktop by the "xfdesktop" package.

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Version: 9.6.0Rating: 9Date: 2018-11-17Votes: 0

Very good and fast distro and also easy to use

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Version: 7.0.8Rating: 9Date: 2018-11-17Votes: 0

7.0.8 is still a modern smart Desktop OS with System Sounds like in Windows.
I'm a Windows User since Years, and I wanna hear the OS ''breathing''. ;)
The 9.6 version is a downgrade to a mutely ''DOS-A-Like'' System - not my Cup of Tea.

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Version: 9.5.0Rating: 8Date: 2018-09-11Votes: 2

Was looking for an alternative to Finnix since it is no longer maintained regulary.
Slax is awesome and it does exactly what it needs to do. No bells and whistles.
Light weight is something we don't see too often and this is perfect at less than 300 mb.

Something nice could be added in the next version is adding freerdp to the iso, but I can add it from the command line with apt so I still like it anyway.